They called on the federal government to ramp up its efforts to free their loved ones and said they had yet to receive "formal communication" from the White House.

Relatives of U.S. citizens feared to have been taken hostage by Hamas urged the Biden administration Tuesday to help free their loved ones, saying they had yet to receive “formal communication” from the White House.

Rachel Goldberg, the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, said at a news conference here that the last words she received from her son came in a message telling her he loved her and that he was “sorry.”

Goldberg-Polin was among thousands of revelers when Hamas terrorists descended on a music festival Saturday, leaving at least 260 people dead and taking an unknown number of attendees hostage.

Goldberg said she heard from witnesses that part of her son’s arm was “blown off” before he was taken by the militants, who ordered anyone who could to “stand up and walk.”

  • PhlubbaDubba
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    9 months ago

    What do they want here? Iran has demonstrated that trying to mount an invasion to liberate hostages by force from Islamists does not end well.

    The only way they’re getting “more” is if they make peace with losing their loved ones in exchange for pushing an invasion of Gaza to round up as many Hamas leaders as can be grabbed to give them the hostage treatment in revenge.